How magical the snail powder is, people who have not eaten it will never understand.
The first time I opened it, the smell of sour shoots came over my face, and Yi Ru thought that the next door neighbor's toilet had exploded.
But as long as you are brave enough to taste it once, you will be fascinated by its wonderful "smelly smell".
As a veteran snail powder gourmet, Yi Ru has eaten almost all the fast-food snail powders available online. But it's not enough
One hungry weekend, I slapped my thigh and flew directly to Liuzhou, the birthplace of snail powder, for two days and two nights.
You have to ask me what is the difference between local snail powder and fast food snail powder sold online?
It can't be said that it has nothing to do with it, but it can only be said that it is really incomparable!
The powder is just a supporting role, press the "two" to want, and then grab a handful of hollow cabbage or fungus vegetables, and cook them together.
A table full of marinades and side dishes is the protagonist of a bowl of snail powder.
Soul sour shoots, peanut rice, and curd bamboo in the instant food pack are free of charge.
You can also add fried duck feet, crispy pork feet, brine eggs, sausages, tofu strips on demand... Finally, a spoonful of rich soup base and chili oil, a mouthful, sour, smelly, fragrant, spicy, a brain straight to the top of the skull, happy tears flowed from the corners of the mouth.
The snail powder shop in Liuzhou is densely packed, and there is one every 100 meters.
The tastes and signs of each store are different, the taste of the east is heavy, the west is sweet, the fried duck feet of the north are perfect, and the sour shoots of the south are smelly.
Every Liuzhou person has several private powder shops in their hearts, and it is difficult to distinguish between a winner and a loser.
He Shuang Snail Powder, recommended by locals, is Yiru's favorite one.
The rice noodles look stiff, but the entrance is soft and tough.
The fried duck feet, soaked in the soup, are stuffed into the mouth and gently sipped, and the skin and bones are easily separated.
The soup base is not thinly sour or spicy, but full of inexplicable layering and fullness.
When eating snail powder, be sure to accompany a bowl of sweet tapioca soup.
A mouthful of hot and spicy, a mouthful of sweetness, that taste, happy to want to go to heaven ~
Duck doesn't have to bother punching in a certain internet celebrity fan shop.
The natives told me that going to the small shop, going up to the stall, looking for it in the deep alley, basically will not overturn the car, and there may be surprises.
However, in Liuzhou, delicious is far more than snail powder!
The following is the Liuzhou food guide compiled by Yiru after 48 hours of binge eating with the aborigines ~ starting from eating, ending with eating, and being a qualified dry rice person~
When traveling, the motivation to get up early is, of course, breakfast.
Local friends highly recommend me to eat Dahua dry fishing powder, which has been open for decades.
The powder is divided into round powder and flat powder, and the toppings are only 3 kinds of brine eggs, meat ingredients, and vegetarian ingredients, and snail powder, which is much more simple and unpretentious, but the taste is not lost at all!
Salty and sweet rice noodles, stirred with char siu, refreshing meat, minced pork skin, mixed and interrupted, delicious to lick the basin ~
In addition to eating powder, Liuzhou people also have the habit of drinking morning tea.
The easy to go SF State Banquet is a local veteran morning tea shop.
The morning tea house is full of large round tables, like holding a banquet. The big screen plays the morning news, and the family is talking about the parents.
Delicate and small dim sum plate after plate, on the Tieguanyin, slowly eat, talk carefully.
When YiRu went to Guangzhou before, he visited many morning tea shops, but SF's first package as a signboard did have something.
The sweet bun, the filling is the taste of hot pudding, and it is not greasy after eating a whole, which is the best in my heart
At lunchtime, Liuzhou people will still choose a bowl of powder to solve, which is a bit confusing at first...
Later, I learned that in addition to snail powder and dry fishing powder, there were also various powders such as roll powder, horse meat powder, old friend powder, fried rice noodles and so on.
Each has its own side dishes and sauces, this crispy and crispy, that beef jerky is so well marinated that it's no wonder you eat flour every day, and it won't get greasy.
Yi Ru has always felt that people who love to eat must also love life.
After eating and walking the streets, I caught the evidence.
On one road, under every tree, there are a bunch of chess masters, and under the pergola of each alley, there are a group of aunts rubbing mahjong.
Or just nagging with my sisters in the shade of a tree, it's my dream of old age
With the uncle and aunt out of the street to cool off, there are small vendors selling "acid".
"Acid" is the appetizing snack of Liuzhou people's afternoon field, which can not only relieve the grease of lunch, but also refresh the mind.
You can simply understand that it is a kind of kimchi, but it is also the first time to eat fruits and vegetables such as plums, pears, and peaches.
I tasted a peach, sweet and sour, spicy taste, really unusually appetizing, and even another bowl of powder!
Afternoon tea, as popular as acid, and traditional sugar water.
Compared with Cantonese-style exquisite desserts, Liuzhou's sugar water is more simple and unpretentious.
A shed, a few tables and a small bench can support a sugar water shop.
Make bean blossoms early in the morning, corn syrup, cold powder, a spoonful into a small iron basin, and then covered with a layer of brown sugar crushed ice.
The ingredients are clear at a glance, and there is no mysterious recipe, but it is a must-eat existence for locals every day.
A few dollars a bowl, men and women of all ages love, healthy and delicious, easy as you can eat 3 bowls in a row!
In the few days I went, the weather in Liuzhou was very comfortable.
Open your eyes to a bright blue sky and white clouds, basking all day, and in the evening, it will be very opportune to go down a rainstorm and wash the heat away.
When you thought that the night was about to be lost, God stopped in time and poured a romantic sunset and sunset into the sky.
The pink twilight also kicked off the wonderful nightlife of Liuzhou people.
At 12 o'clock, the Victory Night Market is as lively as 8 o'clock at night in the center of Hangzhou.
There are so many people that every stall is queuing, and when you see which one has an empty seat, you will sit down quickly, and you will not be allowed to choose.
At this point, supper and breakfast are intertwined.
Fried golden fritters, paired with iced soy milk, it is easy to tell whether you are in the dark or the day
In addition to the snail powder, the snail duck foot pot is also as easy as the heart, curious for a long time delicious.
The snails are simmered with crispy and soft duck feet, and the hollow cabbage, sour shoots, taro, and peanuts are added to a small pot, and the food is delicious until it is speechless.
The snails inside are as big as quail eggs, and they can even be used as soup spoons after eating.
When all the ingredients in the duck foot pot are cleaned up, dig two spoonfuls of soup with the snail shell to make a satisfying finish.
Cold mix beef offal is also the first time in life that it is easy to eat the absolute taste.
Fresh beef offal is lined up in the freezer and weighed. I don't know anyone, I don't know any.
The cold sauce is spicy with a hint of sweetness.
When mixing beef offal, be sure to pair it with a slice of cucumber, coriander and peanut rice, soak it in the soup, and take a large mouthful into your mouth, so that the beef offal can dance a happy waltz on the tip of your tongue.
After eating enough, go for a walk on the edge of the Liujiang River to eat and blow the wind, and it is easy to find that I know a city and always like to start with food.
Liuzhou people have an inexplicable wisdom in their diet.
Morning tea nourishing, herbal tea, sugar water to reduce the fire and greasy, snacks, rice noodles can be full and not too full, supper and chat comforting.
Liuzhou cuisine is not a bowl of snail powder, nor is it any of the above, but a 48-hour, gasping all in.
Easy to recommend Liuzhou cuisine
Delicious powder: He Shuang snail powder, Luo Yi snail powder, Jubao snail powder, Dahua dry fishing powder, corner bar old friend powder
Cold mix beef offal: Tianshan beef offal
Victory BBQ City: Four Seasons Soy Milk, Sister Snacks
Desserts: Yao Ji bean blossoms, Zhang Fei cassava soup, XiaHuotang
Many delicious shops are entered by chance, and even have no name, so you can also go blind to explore and find surprises!
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